Oyster Blog

River project, the wide view. Ron Gold Forestry is assembling the log jam, and they are working super fast in order to complete the project before the salmon start running in mid-August. This morning they piled all the ecology blocks...

It really pays to do business with girl scouts. We love cookies. Last week a group of girls from Camp Robbinswold came down to tour the oyster farm and exclaim over the geoduck. This week we received the thank you...

Gary (see earlier post) also shared these two photos of our own oyster shucking operation in the 1960s... back then we had a conveyor belt to move oyster shell around. Now we use a forklift and dumptruck, and our shell...

Our neighbor and fellow oyster farmer Gary M. heard about our oyster shack documentation project and stopped by the other day with a collection of old photos to share. The oyster shack pictured below stands at the mouth of the...

Our tour of Hood Canal oyster shacks continues with a stop in downtown Lilliwaup. According to John, who grew up in Lilliwaup proper and now shucks oysters for Hama Hama, when this shed was in use back in the 50s...

We just about got skunked last weekend during the first recreational shrimp opening of the year.  Normally we shrimp at about 150 to 200 feet, and normally we do really well. There were 10 of us shrimping in the same...

Killdeer are darling little birds and their high-pitched calls echo across the oyster farm on summer evenings. A couple of days ago Dave noticed that a mother killdeer had built an oyster shell nest in a gravel pile near the...

Friday both the tide and the sun were out during the day, and it was marvelous.

Coyotes. So much less scary than these guys:

The other morning two of the graybeards were driving to work in the woods above the oyster farm when they noticed a dead deer lying in the ditch beside the road. The deer's body was still warm, and it had...